<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><div><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">My breather on my '71 (single large cap) has nothing under the cap but a large washer. I seem to remember a spring, and maybe a foam or other piece under it. I have no symptoms, but I am thinking that I have one or more missing elements. Do you know what is inside those? This is not the later 2-cap type with the PCV valve stuff inside.</span></div><div><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3">In fact, it is neither the early (#8) version, nor the late (#9,11-19, 21-23) version. It does have the hose (#10) to the fill pipe assembly (#2), not the older rubber nipple type.</font></div><div><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div><a href="http://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/manuals/type3_parts_book/Type_3_Parts_Book_Group_1_Engine.pdf">http://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/manuals/type3_parts_book/Type_3_Parts_Book_Group_1_Engine.pdf</a></div><div>About a third through the document</div><div>Page 1-31a, Illustration A4</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-Phil</span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>